, 1887-05-12

| paid for the works OF art IL has at Washing
| ton, and 1t approximates VI ,OOO,OOO. We paid
sl2J, 900 toward the Corcoran gallery, apG
the naked statue of Washington In front of
the Capitol cost $4,000 II was money
thrown away, for the statue ~ a poor one.
Tho Scots statue cost ST. 900 and Clark Mills
White House cost s2s, The groups OF
statuary on the front Of the Capitol cost
more than $87 900, and the pictures In tho
rotunda by Trumbul cost $4,000. Tho
beginning have cost between 5000 600 and
$1,000, 900, and 1t would not be at all hard b
IL ure up over 500 600 spent In per
| nianent improvements here When this is
considered, the talk OF removing the capital
to any other point Is an absurdity: Wash
ington will continue to DO the place Of govern
ment for the United States as long us tho
| Union remains. ~
There Is no truth in the report that there
was an attempt to kidnap Senator Sherman
country Is in bad way, and the police regu-
latiols OF Havana are not the best They are
| good enough, however, 70 prevent kidnapers
from approaching the city, and there is q
of the governor general. The soldiers CT
| Cuba are all brought from Spain. They ara
gotten largely by drafting, and are shipped Off
against their will. The Cuban soldiers aro
than five feet four. They drill well, ami Gen.
McCook says they are well trained. Tho
change Of climate from Spain to Cuba docs
not rule agree with them, and the mOr.
! -.
The Hon Harry Smith, journal clerk Of
! the house of representatives, is great col
lector of curious and raro books. He lately
came across a little octave, entitled 'Illustra-
tions of Living in An Its Branches He
| bought IL with q view, he says, of sending it
to Tom Ochiltree, and he doubts not, he says,
that Ochiltree will be highly interested in II.
| Mrs George Alfred Townsend with Tom
| Ochiltrec Mrs Townsend said: "Mr Ochil-
| tree do YOU know that my husband says you
are the greatest liar in American
| "Ahl no. I beg your partion, Mrs. Town
send, said the courtly Ochiltree, there aro
three greatest liars in America, and IL an,
| one Your husband must be the other two"
| Townsend, by the way, was here lately.
| He owns n country seat in the mountains uf
Maryla which he calls Gapland and he di.
vides good part OF his time in summer be-
| tween this place and Washington. He is still
| engaged in novel writing during the intervals
| in his newspaper work. and he il one of the
busiest men about town know He tells me-
| novel writing does not pay, and do not be.
| lieve anything pays Townsend as well az his
| newspaper writing. He has made oven.
5000 a year at it for more than n decade.
| and he receives from it now more than
| the salary of the chief justice of the United
| States His novels do well II t1ey nay him
81 900 apiece. and he told me once that he
got only $500 from his "Entailed Hat He
| nade S1,OD odt OF q book descriptive OF
Washington, which he Issued about fifteen
years ago. hut this book was sold by sub.
sciiptiOn, and the selling OF subscription
! books PAYS as a rule best for the author
! Grants book and those of Mark Twain ara
instances OF this, and Mrs Logan has re-
| ceiyed in the neighborhood of $4,000 as the
| profits OF "'The Great Conspiracy
Sunset Cox tells me that his muscles nrv
| growing tough again, and that bis health is
oh Ia.